After a certain point, it does not matter whether something actually exists. What’s important is how it reflects on our mind, how it is accepted in our life, and how it impacts human psychology and actions in this way.

Ghosts and zombies, at most, appear in the life of those who have an unsettled account with the ghost as a “perception.” It affects them; it scares them. This is frequently the subject of movies. In those movies, those who fear ghosts and zombies the most are murderers who wronged the spectre when they were alive. What makes the dead come back to life again in their own minds is nothing other than their feelings of guilt. They are aware of their mistake and are scared that one day that person will return to this world and hold them accountable.

Regardless of who does it and how they do it, it is impossible that the persecution of innocent Palestinian children for the sake of the wild Israelis and this thievery that is trying to take hold of the sacred entities of Jerusalem, the common heritage of humanity will fail to leave a deep wound in their conscience. That conscience will have the ghosts of Palestinian children haunt the U.S. in the form of Jerusalem.

When Karl Marx in the mid-19th century said, “A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of communism,” he was talking about the end European capitalism was preparing for capitalism by making the people suffer and exploiting them. What would prepare the end of capitalism was the ghost of the oppressed, created by the fears of capitalism.

The fears that appear today as Islamophobia are the ghosts of the oppressed children of Islam that are believed to be brutally massacred exactly a century ago. This ghost recalls all the crimes committed against Islam. They are surrounded by the concern that they will eventually be held accountable for these crimes. They are becoming even more ill-tempered trying to run from this and even more aggressive with their tyrannous behavior. They are labeling Muslims with terrorism. They know themselves very well. They think they can hide the crimes they committed against the Muslims they killed.

There is a spectre haunting the world. The spectre of Jerusalem, the spectre of Islam. As a matter of fact, this is a ghost that is based on the truth.

It is obvious that the emir of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its foreign minister are both scared of this ghost. This ghost now appears to them as Fahreddin Pasha.

The UAE has a share in almost all the innocent blood shed in the Muslim world in recent years. It led to the bloodshed of Egypt’s oppressed people by provoking the military coup against the president who was elected in Egypt’s first free and relatively taintless elections, by organizing and financing it.

Then, by sending Hafter to Libya, which was finally liberated from dictatorship years later, which laid claim to its will and started a national agreement and dialogue process, by financing him and in cooperation with Egypt, it gave rise to instability and civil war.

What reversed a public revolution process in Yemen as well and dragged it into a civil war was again the UAE’s conspiracies. If there is chaos in Tunisia, then the UAE is definitely behind it.

There was a chaos attempt in Morocco and, when it was traced, the UAE’s fingerprints was over the incident. The UAE is behind the coup attempt against Omar al-Bashir that was revealed a couple of months ago and the bids to lead Sudan to instability.

The UAE’s footsteps were found in all the coup or chaos attempts carried out in Turkey since Feb. 7 by the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Its conspiracy and intervention habits has become so exposed that its name in the Arab world, İmarat, is now pronounced as Muamerat, meaning conspiracy.

We used to think and wonder the cause of the UAE’s fuss and its aggression toward Islam. Why were the children of UAE, most of whose children’s names are Muhammad, haunted by a greater fear of Islam than Israel and the U.S.?

The UAE foreign minister posting a tweet on Fahreddin Pasha from his own account came as the most reasonable explanation for these fears.

 The UAE cannot escape its own history, its own conscience, the guilt it feels for the treacherous crimes it committed a century ago. Therefore, it is attacking with more force than the U.S. and Israel. It is now attacking in the most ruthless manner without rules or without feeling the need to hide itself. Fahreddin Pasha’s ghost is haunting it. It is trying to get away from it. The more it tries to get away the more it is caught up in its past.

The more President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s loud voice that is hope to the oppressed people in the Muslim world rises, the more it echoes in his ear as, “the voice of Fahreddin Pasha who has come to make them pay for betraying Turks, the ummah, the

land of Islam” the more the voice rises the more disturbed he becomes. Thus, the UAE is attacking Erdoğan and Turkey desperately and in panic, as if it is shooting at the ghost of Fahreddin Pasha.

In a sense, it was good that he brought Fahreddin Pasha to the agenda. This way, people found the opportunity to get to know better a murder that was covered up and Fahreddin Pasha, the victim of that murder, and his mission. And through those who betrayed him, they better understand the role inherited today by the UAE.

History is information that works bilaterally. Sometimes the past is read in the light of today, and sometimes history sends its ghosts to today.